Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Donald Trump promised Tuesday to begin working right away if he is elected president to repeal and replace Obamacare.

The Republican presidential candidate told a crowd of supporters in
Valley Forge, Pa., he will ask Congress for a special session to
immediately end the reform law.

"When we win on Nov. 8, and elect a Republican Congress, we will be
able to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare," he said. "We have to
do it. I will ask Congress to convene a special session so we can repeal
and replace, and it will be such an honor for me, for you, and for
everybody in this country because Obamacare has to be replaced, and we
will do it, and we will do it very, very quickly. It's a catastrophe."

President Barack Obama had said if people like their plans and their
doctors, they can keep them, Trump continued, and that "may go down as
one of the great political lies of the century."

"Even the skeptical Democrats believed him, and approved the
legislation," said Trump, who was in the historic Pennsylvania community
with running mate Mike Pence, who was introduced on stage by former GOP
candidate Ben Carson.
The Affordable Care Act was passed, Trump said, but people had not
read the 2,700-page bill, and to this day, "nobody understands it."

"The Obama administration has just announced massive double-digit and
triple-digit Obamacare premium hikes everywhere, all throughout the
country," said Trump, giving his speech as the nation's open enrollment
period began. "Here in Pennsylvania, premiums are going to increase more
than 60 percent, and that's nothing compared what will happen in the
future. Of course in the future, if I'm president, there won't be
Obamacare, so you don't have to worry about it."

But if Obamacare remains, parents will not have enough money "to pay their bills or get medicine for their kids," Trump said.

In Arizona, for example, premiums will go "even higher than 116
percent" and other states will see increases from 60 percent to 90
percent, deductibles of up to $12,000 to even $15,000.

"In other words, your healthcare won't even be usable," Trump said.
"Paying all this money, you won't even get to use it. People all across
the country are devastated. In many instances their healthcare costs are
more than their mortgage costs or their rent, which by the way is a
first in American history. This is particularly unfair to millennials,
and younger Americans generally, who will be totally crushed by massive
healthcare costs before they even get started on their journey through
life."

Trump said his campaign's replacement plan includes "health savings
accounts, a nationwide insurance market where you can purchase across
state lines and letting states manage Medicaid dollars," for an
affordable plan where "parents can make the healthcare decisions that
they really want to make for their families. It will be a much better
healthcare at a much less cost."

Pence, meanwhile, pointed out that back in 2009 and 2010, he was the
leader of a House Republican conference fighting against Obamacare, and
"Republicans knew it for what it was, we called it out, and that's the
reason why I'm proud to say not one single Republican in the House or
Senate voted for Obamacare.

"Every single one opposed it. And I'm also proud that since 2010
Republicans in Congress have been united and continue to work each and
every day to replace Obamacare with free market healthcare solutions
that will work for the American people."

Before Obamacare got its nickname, it was called "Hillarycare," Pence
said, and both Obama and Democratic nominee made promises that were not
kept.

"The truth is premiums for employer plans have gone up by almost
$5,000 since President Obama took office and last week the Obama
administration announced, and this is almost breath-taking to think
about it, the Obama administration announced that the average premiums
under Obamacare exchanges are going to go up 25 percent on average
across the country."

"Most heartbreaking of all, 110,000 households will see rates spike
drastically with absolutely no help from the government," Pence said.
"You know, I remember back in the days in Congress, the very day this
bill passed, you remember, Nancy Pelosi went to the floor of the
Congress, quote, "'We have to pass the bill so we can find out what's in
it.' Well, we found out, and it's each worse than we thought."

Clinton, Pence said, plans to introduce a single payer plan into the system to provide more government-run health insurance.

"She actually went to Canada and gave a speech that came out not too
long ago," Pence said. "She told Canadians and business groups that she
wanted to get, and I'm quoting, 'Universal healthcare coverage like you
have here in Canada.' Well, we don't want the socialized health care
they have in Canada, we want American solutions."

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